Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

by Michelle Sheu Posted on July 7, 2015

CIE - Center For Innovation & Entrepreneurship

California Polytechnic State University

Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Location: San Luis Obispo, California 93407

Mission: “The Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship manages and supports a wide variety of programs and activities to stimulate the entrepreneurial “learn by doing” spirit at Cal Poly,  and to assist entrepreneurs in following their dreams.

Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) transforms motivated students into resourceful, entrepreneurial and innovative leaders.”

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NUvention

by Michelle Sheu Posted on July 7, 2015

Northwestern University

NUvention

Location: The Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (FCEI)

Mission: “NUvention is our flagship interdisciplinary course and forms the cornerstone of our goals as a center. It is a visionary academic partnership created to expand upon Northwestern University’s excellence in interdisciplinary study and to foster a sense of collaboration throughout Northwestern’s various schools. The program is designed to expose students to the entire innovation and entrepreneurial life cycle and to help them understand how innovations can become a viable business in the real world. And, it’s Northwestern’s most concerted effort to bring the world of startups to the classroom.

Hosted at The Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (FCEI), which evolves engineering beyond the application of the sciences to the creation of businesses that capitalize on innovations. We bring together faculty from an array of disciplines to develop a unique curriculum in which students experience the entire innovation/business life cycle—from ideation to prototyping and business plan development.”

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Viterbi Student Institute for Innovation

by Michelle Sheu Posted on July 7, 2015

Logo: The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering

University of Southern California

Viterbi Student Institute for Innovation

Location: Rapp Engineering Research Building

University of Southern California 3650 McClintock Avenue, OHE 530E

Mission: “VSi2 will serve as a crucible for innovation for Viterbi students, who will learn how to turn their ideas or research into successful business ventures. VSi2 which will offer educational programs, new venture creation support and networking opportunities to help cultivate the next gen engineering entrepreneur.

Includes the Viterbi School’s new design and fabrication lab for undergraduate students, the Fab Lab. Here, students can create hobby related projects, scale models such as experimental wingtips, and precision components for capstone assignments.

The lab is intended to provide students with the resources they need to make almost any design project a physical reality. The computer-controlled lab equipment can cut fabrication times from weeks to hours.The Fab-Lab concept of combining high- and low-tech tools for personal fabrication originates at MIT. The USC Fab Lab will hopefully evolve to support multidisciplinary student projects that uniquely engage the Los Angeles community.”

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